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Visiting Scholar Arthur Larrabee | October 27
We are excited to announce that Arthur Larrabee will serve as Friends Seminary's 2016-2017 Visiting Scholar. Larrabee will kick off his residency with a public lecture, Illuminating the Quaker Heart of a Friends School: Stories from a Quaker Life, in the Meetinghouse on October 27, 2016 at 6 p.m. During the same week as his public lecture, Larrabee will also work with students and faculty through a series of workshops. |
ABOUT ARTHUR Arthur is a consultant and workshop leader in the field of Quaker decision-making and clerking. Arthur recently retired as General Secretary of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, a position he had held since 2007. For 23 years, Arthur practiced law in Philadelphia where he was the founding partner of the law firm, Larrabee, Cunningham and McGowan. Arthur has served on a number of boards including Westtown School (of which he was clerk for eight years and is now Emeritus Trustee), Friends Fiduciary Corporation and the University of Pennsylvania. He has been clerk of Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting and clerk of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. He currently serves as member of the board of Pendle Hill, a Quaker study, retreat and conference center. Arthur volunteered with the American Friends Service Committee doing rural community-development work in Tanzania, East Africa. A life-long Friend, Arthur has been a member of Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting since 1970. He lives in Chester County, PA and is married to Nancy van Arkel who serves as the principal of Westtown’s Middle School. ABOUT THE VISITING SCHOLAR PROGRAM Friends Seminary's annual Visiting Scholar Program was created in 2009 to augment the curriculum by exposing students to scholars and artists who would not normally be accessible to pre-collegiate students. The program is made possible by an anonymous donor. As a school committed to an innovative and dynamic curriculum, the Visiting Scholars program provides the ideal curricular enhancement; in an intimate setting, our students have the rare opportunity to meet and learn from experts in their fields. The impact of this experience will further inspire and motivate them to go out and “bring about the world that ought to be.” PAST SCHOLARS Architect Charles Renfro (2009-2010) Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson (2010-2011) Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin (2012-2013) Journalist Jill Abramson (2014-2015) |
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